21 Cited authorities

  1. Waters v. Churchill

    511 U.S. 661 (1994)   Cited 928 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that basing a termination decision on "the word of two trusted employees, the endorsement of those employees’ reliability," and "a face-to-face meeting with the employee he fired" was reasonable and "no further time needed to be taken"
  2. United States v. Treasury Employees

    513 U.S. 454 (1995)   Cited 558 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding federal-employee honoraria ban unconstitutional
  3. Thornhill v. Alabama

    310 U.S. 88 (1940)   Cited 1,688 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a law is overbroad if it does not aim specifically at evils within the allowable area of control, but sweeps within its ambit other activities that constitute an exercise of First Amendment rights
  4. Doninger v. Niehoff

    527 F.3d 41 (2d Cir. 2008)   Cited 206 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding Tinker applies to speech originating off-campus if it “would foreseeably create a risk of substantial disruption within the school environment, at least when it was similarly foreseeable that the off-campus expression might also reach campus”
  5. Hecht v. City of New York

    60 N.Y.2d 57 (N.Y. 1983)   Cited 378 times
    Upholding Appellate Division's dismissal of negligence complaint because gap in sidewalk was trivial and therefore not actionable
  6. People v. Sanchez

    98 N.Y.2d 373 (N.Y. 2002)   Cited 181 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that jury may convict on depraved indifference theory if it can "harbor a reasonable doubt that the homicide of [the victim] was intentional"
  7. Hahn Auto. Warehouse, Inc. v. Am. Zurich Ins. Co.

    2012 N.Y. Slip Op. 2344 (N.Y. 2012)   Cited 132 times
    Assuming there is a right to payment when the party has the contractual right to, and does, demand unconditional payment
  8. Cuff v. Valley Cent. Sch. Dist.

    677 F.3d 109 (2d Cir. 2012)   Cited 107 times
    Holding disruption was reasonably forecast when student turned in an assignment stating "blow up the school with the teachers in it" even though student did not have capacity to carry out the threat and argued that the statement was a joke
  9. Jeffries v. Harleston

    52 F.3d 9 (2d Cir. 1994)   Cited 129 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that defendant university board of trustees could not be held liable under § 1983 where legitimate motive of majority of trustees was a "superceding cause" between tainted motive of two board members and the allegedly retaliatory decision
  10. Melzer v. Bd. of Educ, City of New York

    336 F.3d 185 (2d Cir. 2003)   Cited 91 times
    Holding that defendant school board's termination of plaintiff teacher who belonged to association that advocated sexual relations between men and boys, was constitutional because board's interest in orderly operation of high school outweighed teacher's interest in commenting on areas of public concern
  11. Section R4511 - Judicial notice of law

    N.Y. C.P.L.R. § 4511   Cited 375 times
    Forthcoming 2005
  12. Section 5515 - Taking an appeal; notice of appeal

    N.Y. CPLR 5515   Cited 329 times

    1. An appeal shall be taken by serving on the adverse party a notice of appeal and filing it in the office where the judgment or order of the court of original instance is entered except that where an order granting permission to appeal is made, the appeal is taken when such order is entered. A notice shall designate the party taking the appeal, the judgment or order or specific part of the judgment or order appealed from and the court to which the appeal is taken. 2. Whenever an appeal is taken

  13. Section 10-1-1 et seq - [Repealed]

    Ala. Code § 10-1-1 et seq   Cited 116 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Parading without a Parade
  14. Section 1683 - Signs or markings required

    N.Y. Veh. & Traf. Law § 1683   Cited 8 times

    (a) No ordinance, order, rule or regulation made by any local authority under the powers conferred by this title shall be effective until signs or markings giving notice thereof are posted, except under such conditions as may be authorized in writing by the department of transportation or as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, if the effect of such order, ordinance, rule or regulation is to: 1. Designate through highways and order stop signs, flashing signals or yield signs erected